Durham HPC Days 2026, 15 June – 19 June 2026

Website: https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/

Submission deadline: 13th of March AoE

Notification: 14th of April

Durham HPC Days bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to explore the frontiers of high-performance computing, data analysis, and scientific innovation. With a mixture of workshops, tutorials and contributed talks there will be a wide range of topics covered in the week.

Call for presentations

We invite proposals for talks, typically 15-25 minutes long, which will be embedded into a wider programme hosting invited speakers and vendor presentations.

Suggested topics of interest for this conference include (but are not limited to):

• Optimisation of HPC, AI and ML workloads to deliver increased efficiency and scaling on HPC machines
• Use of novel technologies, techniques and architectures to deliver improved energy efficiency
• Software, programming, and algorithmic approaches for reducing power consumption by codes
• The convergence of AI/ML and HPC applications and algorithms
• Success stories around efforts to encourage Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the HPC workforce
• Approaches to user training
• How we are able to share hardware designed for AI/ML with HPC and vica-versa
• Going beyond the batch system, for instance the use of interactive computing such as Jupyter notebooks, on traditional HPC machines
• HPC centre policy to enable non-traditional workloads
• Lessons learnt from energy efficient HPC centre operation

As HPC is a large community that encompasses many different roles, we welcome both technical and non-technical contributors at all career levels to submit their work in order to broaden the knowledge of all those who attend our event. 

Submission details

We request submission of an abstract, approximate length 300 words which will be peer reviewed, via the conference website at https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/call-for-talks/

Review committee

• Marion Weinzierl, ICCS, University of Cambridge
• Gokberk Kabacaoglu, Durham University
• Eleanor Broadway, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
• Eva Fernandez-Amez, Durham University
• Nick Brown, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
• Tobias Weinzierl, CS, Durham University
• Xingran Ruan, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
• Alastair Basden, DiRAC/ICC, Durham University
• Darren White, EPCC, University of Edinburgh